If you’re anything like me and already have the Christmas station as a preset for your car radio, this time of year has your heart burning brighter than Christmas lights!

From the red Starbucks cups poured to the brim with liquid magic filling people’s chilly, mitten adorned hands, to even the slight thought of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with my siblings in our pajamas come turkey day; I LOVE the holidays.

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(our lit teacher at school let us already get festive and it sparked my inner Buddy the Elf)

This Thursday students at my school involved with our musical were offered tickets to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes and I literally jumped for joy when I read the offer via email.

I’ve danced basically since I could walk and so going to the Nutcracker with my grandma or mom used to be one of my favorite Christmas time traditions. (watching the Barbie version on TV was a close second)

This time it was the Rockettes and my oh my I just wanna grow a few more inches taller so I could at least pretend I am one. They’re absolutely amazingly talented and with each costume change I became more and more jealous.

 

(okay I did pretend but a girl can dream, right?)

If you still have the chance, see if there are still tickets available because the show runs at The Orpheum until November 30 and its a MUST to get you into the Christmas spirit. I for sure sang Christmas songs the entire way home. If you can’t get your hands on tickets, PLEASE YouTube a few of the Rockettes videos because it will leave you amazed and thinking you too can do 200 kicks in one day (the Rockette’s stat considering they do 3 shows a day, wowza.)

Happy early holidays, have a wonderful weekend!

Drink some hot cocoa, turn on some Christmas tunes, and get ready because Christmas is coming friends!!

xoxo, Allison

*let me tell ya about my best friend*

so I tried starting off this post by Pinterest searching “best friend quotes” and realized that just wasn’t going to do

if any of you even semi know Andie and I, you know our relationship is nothing close to the cheesy quotes you can google

it’s a little different than that

so I felt I would share with you what it’s like to have such a stellar sister of a best friend–minus the cheesy quotes–

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Andie and I met our freshman year (now juniors) and to say we were friends from the start doesn’t ring true

we sat by each other in biology that first year in high school and- i was. terrified. of her. couldn’t really tell you why, she wasn’t mean nor scary, but the intimidation was there

skip two years and here we are, she’s practically the big sister i’ve always wanted.

I can’t quite describe what happened but I’m pretty freaking excited whatever it is did

Here are a few of our favorite things; for you to read about, smile about, and share with your bestie too

sushi dates// Andie works at Blue Sushi (the place i mentioned on my birthday post that is vveerryy worth trying). Not ashamed to admit we can devour a family of four’s worth of sushi in about ten minutes. It’s been one of our go-to foods for awhile and has sort of turned into a mini unsaid tradition I look forward to and I’m not 100% sure if it’s because of Andie or the sushi (Andie if you’re reading this i swear it’s because of you, if not its because of the sushi)

school night spendies// these things are sanity savers let me tell you. nothing can be a relief to school stress quite like sitting with your best friend doing absolutely nothing. (ha ha what homework?) these are highly encouraged mid-week and often include me cuddling with her dogs and Andie on her phone but whatever works (she’s somewhat caring sometimes I swear)

Pinterest//alright I take full blame for getting her hooked (although I’m ten times more obsessed) but we’ve started to use Pinterest messaging to our advantage and it’s highly addictive. Why text cute pictures of puppies and gorgeous celebrities when you can send them via Pinterest…? We have few secret boards up our sleeves filled with life goals and, yes, a few of those cheesy best friend quotes

Being Ally and Andie// allison and andrea. nothin’ is quite like just being yourself and doing that with a friend is ten billion times as amazing. honestly andie knows me inside and out and i’ve gotten to the point where i have HER school schedule memorized better than mine. we laugh about the utmost silliest things and having someone to turn to when everyone else in the world seems against me is a crazy cool feeling. i wouldn’t want anyone else to make fun of me for being a Pinterest addict or support my love of monograms and i can’t wait for many more memories to come-okay that was so cheesy we could almost make it a Pinterest quote

fighting like a married couple is our specialty

my own personal chauffeur (to sushi dates of course)

and best of all my biggest fan

(and I’m hers, i can’t believe my KU born self would ever be saying, Go Mizzou!)

(andie was also the one who supported me originally in starting this blog, told you she rocks)

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so this is my bestie and she’s pretty fabulous

go hug your best friend, shoot them a text, and let them know they’re pretty fab too

xoxo, Allison

This week has been crazy, over the top, jammed packed busy for me and I get the vibe it has been for just about everyone else too. So here we are friends, Sunday, we made it.

Here is a quick synopsis of anything important that happened in my week for all you living vicariously through this blog:

Seven tests/quizzes. seven. I kid you not, my friends. That right there was my main mountain to climb this week and I reached the top without going insane (or too insane, I will admit my sanity was a little off) , so claps for me. 

State Volleyball!!!!!! If you read my bio you know that my bestie, Andie, is a stud and on the varsity volleyball team. Watching her play is too fun and I like to think I’m pretty close to a volleyball mom at this point. If I wasn’t cheering at the game itself I was waiting for every live tweet and biting my fingernails in bed on my phone. Low and behold, we took state and I couldn’t be more proud of Andie and the rest of the team!!

 

(don’t be too fooled over her excitement, currently watching her be a state champ napper while we’re SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON A PROJECT WAKE UP.)

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins// okay guys. these are great. too great. I found a recipe on Pinterest while I was putting off studying for those seven tests and they turned out amazing. I will try to make a post later this week with the recipe and how I changed it a bit but they were honestly, so. good.

(hecka proud of these, excuse the muffin selfie shadow)

Starbucks oatmeal// haha okay, you’re probably thinking, “really Ally, Starbucks, again?” and I am replying, “yes. always.” I haven’t had this lately but have been craving it like crazy. Next time you’re in the need of breakfast on the go PLEASE go try Starbucks oatmeal. I’m usually not an oatmeal fan unless its coated in sprinkles but this stuff is really good. I like the fresh blueberry one but they have a dried berries and nuts one as well. Under $3 and absolutely amazing.

Well there you have it. A week of craziness and apparently November is already half way over?! No complaints here though, nothing is standing in the way of me and Thanksgiving now. Turkey Day come at me.

Hope your next week is a little less stressful but just as filled with smiles!

xoxo, Allison